What better antidote to the rapacious commercialism of Black Friday than a night out in Brixton with Savages? The O2 Academy show was the band’s biggest UK headlining performance to date and the packed house signalled that this was a band ready for the big leagues. Walking on to Leonard Cohen’s A Thousand Kisses Deep was a nice touch – a fitting […]
Gemma Thompson
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Savages are to follow up their rampaging summer festival performances with their biggest London headline show to date at London’s O2 Academy. The double Mercury Music Prize nominees will play the 5,000-capacity Brixton venue on November 25. It comes at the end of a big year for the Anglo-French post-punk outfit, which saw the release of their […]
David Bowie’s brilliant parting gift Blackstar may already have secured the coveted title of most important album of 2016, but few releases have been more eagerly anticipated than Savages’ second album Adore Life. Sharing Bowie’s flair for the theatrical, the post punk quartet burst of the scene with the snarling Silence Yourself in 2013. Ignoring offers from big name producers, the band stuck with […]
